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People like Alex and Trey give me hope that intelligence and creativity is not being effectively ground out of us all; that our occasional determination to embrace our “weirdness” is actually still valued and valuable. …

In terms of pure creativity, California, Denver, and Portland are exploring aesthetic territory that all but a couple of Washington breweries have left totally fallow. …

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